Applied behavior analysis and school psychology: An introduction to the mini-series.

Provides an overview of a mini-series on behavior analysis which stemmed from the authors' view that applied behavior analysis and school psychology are complimentary and that each area can make contributions to the other. It is suggested that there are 4 features of behavior analysis that make it particularly well-suited for assessment and intervention in the schools: the emphasis on analysis, the emphasis on repeated measures of individual behavior, the emphasis on observable behavioral and environmental events, and the reliance on proven principles of behavior to account for behavioral persistence and behavioral change. Behavior analysis is equally concerned with questions about why behavior is occurring and knowing why interventions are (or are not) effective. Behavior analysis also emphasizes repeated measurements of individual behavior, which is advantageous because the trends and patterns of behavior can be evaluated while those trends and changes are in progress. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)